Mr. Teddy Cashman:

It is not because the professional hunters were targeting the stags and this was not bringing down the deer population. The estate now has its own stalkers employed directly. The deer hunting has been cut out. A large financial gain resulted from the deer hunting, but when the loss to the forestry business was weighed against the financial gain from the deer hunting, the outcome did not match. This has been the point we have been making here. Coillte sells many licences for deer hunting as well and it is also considering this balance. This is one of the conversations we will be having next week with the company. I will be learning more about this and we will be pushing the envelope as much as we can. To be fair to Coillte, it is very much on board.

On the venison question, we have done the overarching work as the start of the study. What we are looking at is the helicopter view, but we need to get into the details. We know what some of the details need to be but we need to start enacting them. As I said, we will be looking for everybody's support to do so because I think this is the right direction to go.